Well, there is no third-person language here to fool you into thinking that someone else composed this. I am writing my bio so that you know exactly where I come from and where I’m going. My name is Paul Sikes. Unlike most songwriters trying to make it in Music City, I was actually born in Nashville, TN. And as pretty much all musicians would say in cliché fashion, my journey began early on. I grew up in a musical family although music was not my family’s profession. My dad was and still is a preacher. My mom was and still is an elementary school teacher. They both played the piano growing up and through college, so naturally they encouraged me to take up the instrument. I was seven when I began playing, but always hated practicing! Nonetheless, I kept with it for several years learning a great deal of music theory from my teacher, Mrs. Elaine Bogard. Now fast-forward to age thirteen. I picked up the guitar for the first time at summer camp. I fell in love with the instrument and with practicing. The years of piano really helped me transition to learning how to play the guitar pretty quickly. As a teenager, I began to take a great deal of interest in songwriting. Now, I grew up listening to a huge collection of vinyl records with my dad.. The Beatles, The Beach Boys, Chicago, Emerson Lake And Palmer, James Taylor, Johnny Winter and Michael Hedges (to give you an idea), and those influences were definitely making their way into the musical style I was developing as a writer and musician.
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Well, there is no third-person language here to fool you into thinking that someone else composed this. I am writing my bio so that you know exactly where I come from and where I’m going. My name is Paul Sikes. Unlike most songwriters trying to make it in Music City, I was actually born in Nashville, TN. And as pretty much all musicians would say in cliché fashion, my journey began early on. I grew up in a musical family although music was not my family’s profession. My dad was and still is a preacher. My mom was and still is an elementary school teacher. They both played the piano growing up and through college, so naturally they encouraged me to take up the instrument. I was seven when I began playing, but always hated practicing! Nonetheless, I kept with it for several years learning a great deal of music theory from my teacher, Mrs. Elaine Bogard. Now fast-forward to age thirteen. I picked up the guitar for the first time at summer camp. I fell in love with the instrument and with practicing. The years of piano really helped me transition to learning how to play the guitar pretty quickly. As a teenager, I began to take a great deal of interest in songwriting. Now, I grew up listening to a huge collection of vinyl records with my dad.. The Beatles, The Beach Boys, Chicago, Emerson Lake And Palmer, James Taylor, Johnny Winter and Michael Hedges (to give you an idea), and those influences were definitely making their way into the musical style I was developing as a writer and musician.
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